local news just had item about ancient software at state agencies, 619
major cobol applications developed in 80s ... frequent crashesoutages,
almost impossible to maintain or change ... in part because of the lack
of cobol programmers. The state is even considering setting up financial
incentive
That's not the only causemanagement being cheap, an issue I have seen
for years...experienced people are worth their weight on 'gold' .
On Saturday, February 7, 2015, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote:
local news just had item about ancient software at state agencies, 619
major
and companies not looking to the future for requirements. There are
probably a number of employees in the mid-40s that could be trained and let the
newbies pick up the LUW support going forward.
Mitch
-Original Message-
From: Scott Ford idfzos...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN
http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/02/06/old-computers-state-government-agencies/22953063/
On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 19:50:10 -0500, scott wrote:
Which state agencies? Some out of work programmers would probably love
to do some meaningful work.
On 02/07/2015 01:01 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler
On 14 Jan 2015 16:57:26 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Hi,I am looking for COBOL compiler option to compile our COBOL programs in =
64 Bit mode.Please lead me if you have such a experience .The COBOL version=
is 4.2 on Z9 with z/OS 1.12. Best regardsManshadi
AMODE 64 COBOL is still
Tom Brennan writes:
Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was
encrypted on disk or not (as some news reports are talking about). I
mean, if I do a SELECT * from an admin id I must be going through the
decrypt process, right?
No, that's not a given. Many financial
One of an article says the hack assumingly happened from an external Web
storage.
So not a mainframe ?
Jake
On 8 Feb 2015 08:31, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote:
Tom Brennan writes:
Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was
encrypted on disk or not (as
Scott:
I am far from an expert in these areas but here are some thoughts.
From what little I have seen here in IL here are some guesses:
1. Budgets are not only bare bones but are downright disgraceful.
Year after year the budgets are FROZEN and that means doing less with
no new equipment.
On 7 February 2015 at 22:00, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote:
I'm assuming customers use IBM mainframes and use these wonderful
capabilities (and others) IBM provides. Big assumptions, sadly violated too
often.
Now it's (sadly) a violation to not use an IBM mainframe?! I know
IBM has
at the prompt i issue
(the fully qualifed path name is on purpose here):
/usr/lpp/java/bin/java java ?version
I don't have access to a system at the moment, so I might be wrong. Anyway if
there is no typo in the command line as show, I think the java is duplicate.
The first one at the
to all who contributed to this thread both in ibm-main and in mvs-oe after
about 1459 hrs (2:59 p.m.) last friday:
(mainly Messrs Mms Barkow, Justice, Hochhalter, Kugler, Carros, Gilmartin)
personal problems have supervened in my life to prevent me from trying your
various suggestions, and
According to Anthem's website, it was formed by the merger of Wellpoint and
Anthem.
According to http://mainframes.wikidot.com/, Wellpoint is a mainframe shop.
Hopefully as additional details will become available. It seems, that
unless you are in the know, which I'm not, that facts are in
Which state agencies? Some out of work programmers would probably love
to do some meaningful work.
On 02/07/2015 01:01 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:
local news just had item about ancient software at state agencies, 619
major cobol applications developed in 80s ... frequent crashesoutages,
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